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Poem of the day

What is green?

Green is the grass

And the leaves of trees

Green is the smell

Of a country breeze

Green is a coolness

You get in the shade

Of the tall old woods

Where moss is made

Green is a flutter

That comes in Spring

When frost melts out

Of everything.

Green is a grasshopper

Green is jade

Green is hiding

 In the shade –

Green is an olive

And a pickle.

The sound of green

Is a water-trickle.

Green is the world

After the rain

Bathed and beautiful

Again…

Green is the meadow,

Green is the fuzz

That covers up where winter was.

Green is ivy and

Honeysuckle vine.

Green is yours

Green is mine.

-  Mary O’Neill

I see, I think, I wonder...

Share this picture with your child, and start a conversation about what you can see, what you think might be happening, and wondering about what might happen next, what people might be feeling or thinking, or the story that surrounds the scene.

 "I can see a tiny person climbing a metal ladder and looking through a camera.  I think he might have accidentally had shrinking potion and that's why everything is so big around him.  I wonder how he is going to go back to his normal size again? Maybe he has to go and find a wizard..."